Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 242, 19 August 1913 — Page 4
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TI1E RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1913
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The Mexican Situation
ine answer oi tne unuea states io me ai-i leged ultimatum of the Mexican government j
could be very short and effective. At the present time there is an embargo against shipping arms from this country to the Mexican insurgents. Taft was responsible for this move when he was president. If the United States removes this embargo and allows the insurgents to receive arms as freely as the so-called government forces have, President Huerta will have received about the most effective answer that lies within the right of this country to give at the present time. If the Mexican insurgents once become as well armed as the Huerta forces, they will make short work of that gentleman and his band of frock coated assassins. They outnumber the government forces and even now with the great handicap of this country's embargo against shipping them arms and ammunition, they hold more of Mexico's territory than do the Huerta forces. Huerta has lost all right to consideration from this country. That does not mean that the United States should now try armed intervention. It should simply return to the policy of justice and allow the forces of right and wrong in Mexico to battle out their great fundamental differences. Huerta and his side stand for the enslavement of the millions of peons in the interest of the few great land monopolists. The insurgents are fighting for control of the government so as to change the fundamental laws of the republic and give to the great body of Mexicans free access to the land. It is the latter who have not been allowed to receive arms from this country. Huerta, representing the monopolistic side, has been able to .import all the munitions of war he needed or desired. One can not foretell the future. It may be that armed intervention by this country may be forced. In that case if we have removed the embargo against shipping arms to the insurgents, our country will find its task vastly easier for having the good will of the latter.
Escaping the Electric Chair And now comes another wife murderer who would escape the penalty of his crime under the new state law regarding trying insane people. George Schools, who is confined in the county jail for the recent atrocious murder of his wife, is acting in a manner that would prove him insane. His alleged dementia takes the form of suicide. The new law provides that a murderer insane at the time set for his trial can not be tried. He must be sent to the Indiana colony for criminally insane at Michigan City. Schools' actions lead one to believe he realizes the value of this law to a murderer who would escape the death penalty. It is said that before he committed the crime, Schools several times rushed into his boarding house, shouting that he had been stabbed. In each case examination showed that he had not been stabbed. This is offered as evidence that he was insane before and at the time the crime wa3 committed and to strengthen the claim that he is still insane and therefore can not be tried. Nothing would have been easier than for Schools to have acted as he did before killing his wife for the purpose of later accomplishing his act of revenge with the least possible consequences to himself. He had before him the example of Seth Lucas who had escaped trial by real or assumed insanity. Schools could feign insanity before committing the murder. Afterwards, by continuing to act in an insane manner he might stand a chance of being sent to the insane colony just as was Lucas, -and thus be sure of escaping any likelihood of facing the death penalty. A few more examples of this kind and the people of the state will begin to realize that the new law is very defective and was evidently drawn in the interests of the lawyers who make a business, and a very profitable one, too, of defending murderers.
SOCIAL CERTAINTIES
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"SOCIAL INTER-DEPENDENCY." By H. L. Haywood. HE old-fashioned physician used to treat a man for "kidney trouble" or "stomach trouble" or "bowel complaint"; he would dose the patient with, drugs that had an immediate effect on each
of these organs, and closed his eyes to the general condition of the raan"s system. But our modern physician who has received his training since the discovery of "auto-intoxication" has come to look upon the pathological states in these various orpans as merely the symptoms of a wide-spread condition that affects the entire body. In other words, he has learned that no one organ "lives to itself or dies to itself," but carries all the others with it into disease, Thi3
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means that all the organs of the body are interdependent This medical discovery has been called by certain recent writers "the greatest discovery In applied medical science;" whether that is so or not we can not say, but
a strange coincidence it is an almost exact analogy a discovery in social science, which is undoubtedly the Kreatest discovery in sociology; this is nothing else than the principle that all the institutions and factors of society are interdependent and live or die, rise or falL together. As Herbert Spencer said, "Humanity is an organism'1 and it is impossible to have health in the social body while a single organ is diseased. It has ever been the. prime error of second-rate statesmen and poor politicians to consider our social institutions as existing insulated in a water-tight compartment. One of the cleared examples of this may be found in our own history. In the ante-bellum days there was a class of public men who persisted in preaching the doctrine that slavery could be "confined" in its effects to a certain limited territory and to certain single social institutions. Their notion was that by somehow quarantining a social injustice they could neutralize its evil and make it do service for good. Not the least part of Lincoln's great work was the exposure of this fallacy and the revelation of the fact that slavery would permeate the entire fabric of the nation's life before it had done. Let this poison secure a foothold in any organ and it will iinally cause the entire social body to sicken, was the substance of his teaching. This fact has long been instinctively understood by those predacious humans who, in various ages, have made up the master class. Driven by the lust to rule and to draw blood, like vampires, from the veins of the people, this class has never at one time sought to hold immediate sovereignty over all of social life, but has rather been content to intrench themselves in any one of the basic social institutions. This had a double advantage; firsf, they could rule the whole with less trouble by occupying one strategic position, and secondly, they could keep the people docile by pointing out the "freedom" which they were enjoying in some other department. History is largely made up of the efforts of the master class to gain such a vantage point and to hold it after having gained it, and of the struggles of the people to oust them out of their controlling position. In Egypt the ruling group fastened itself on religious institutions, converted the priesthood into its instrument and utterly controlled popular life through popular religious superstitions. In many of the city-states of Greece it used the educational institutions for the same purpose. In feudal days the same class controlled society by merely controlling the land. At certain periods one small group was able to Icrd it over the rest by seizing the avenues of communication. At other times, particularly daring the past three or four centuries the favorite method has been to get hold of the political institutions. Our own master class has through the exercise of special privilege, gotten itself very strongly intrenched in the heart of our system of production and exchange. Rooting there it quietly sends its ramifying branches underground to every other field of our social activities and is thus wrapping its tentacles about the masses and entangling them in its smothering nets. By controlling our industrial system it finds it very easy also to control all our institutions, such as the church, the theatre, the school, medicine, law, politics, and so forth. We common folks are beginning to awaken to this fact and are learning that so long as we have industrial slavery and class rule, we can not have freedom anywhere else. "Political freedom" is a pleasant bluff so long as the master class is able to hold us up and utterly control us through their control of our food supply, our factories and our transportation. As it goes without saying, the governing class is never in need of arguments and reasons in support of its position; in fact, it has ever at hand a whole arsenal of philosophies, sciences, theologies and what not to prove that its sovereignty is a foreordained part of the plan of the universe. One favorite argument is that of the "survival of the fittest." "We are born to rule and to own," they assert, "and those who are at the bottom belong there by right." Another time-honored logical weapon is that the masses are unfit for self-rule, and must, therefore have benevolent oligarchs to do their ruling for them. These arguments are very interesting and also very fallacious. As to the first, which is simply a variant of the old dogma of the "divine right of rulers," but has now taken the form of a plea of efficiency, we need only to point to the fact of inheritance. The argument would hold good if the master class were continually subject to competition with all outsiders, but the very essence of class rule is to destroy competition. All the reasons advanced for the continuance in power of our oligarchy hings on the fallacy that leaves inheritance out of account. I may build up a business through my own merits and deserve my earnings and my success; but that is not to say that the child or the old maid aunt or the invalid cousin who may happen to inherit my business merits it at all. Were it left subject to ever renewed competition it would probably soon escape from our hands, but as it is not, it is kept in the family, or in the class, and that through inheritance. As for the second argument the fallacy of that is the fallacy of all justification for oligarchy. The oligarch shuts up the avenues of opportunity and thereby causes a degeneracy among the masses and thereafter points to the same degeneracy which his oligarchy has created as the justification for his rule. This is the way the Russian bureaucrats defend themselves. But the only way the people can ever be fit for self-rule is by self-rule; they can no more be taught by another than a child can be taught to walk by another. Our own greatest sociologist, Lester F. Ward, has shown beyond all peradventure of doubt that there are as many born geniuses and talents among the poor and the masses as among other classes, but that they never develop fully for lack of necessary opportunity. It is only through ruling themselves that the people will ever become fit for it. There is much to cast us into gloom in our present state of affairs. The historical students of longest range do not hesitate to declare that the civilized nations have now reached the parting of the ways; life and death hang in the balance. But there is one omen which fills us with hope, and that is the fact that the people are generally awakening to the truth of the inter-dependency of all our social institutions and the methods of class rule. They have traced the beast of prey to his lair, and it remains now merely to smoke him out and to make an end of him.
Two New Members of House of Representatives
A SMILE OR TWO
Woman of house (to tramp) What do you mean by coming to the front door? Tramp Sure, mam, it's not the foine lady loike yerself Oi'd be seein' in the kitchen. Boston Transcript.
George Rudolph, go down stairs and get me some excelsior. Rudolph Excelsior! What's that? George You know, that stuff that looks like hay. Rudolph Oh, that long sawdust. Judge.
A Neodesha woman was trying to explain to a neighboring little boy the use of the word "each." "Now give me a sentence with that word in it," she said. But she nearly fainted when he replied: "Chiggers crawl up nay legs and make 'em each." Kansas City Times.
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NEW CONGRESSMAN A ST. LOUIS LAWYER. William L. Igoe, a St. Louis lawyer and a graduate of Washington University, which recently furnished a cabinet officer in the person of its former president, David F. Houston. Mr. Igoe is a Democrat and is the mau who beat Theron CatHn. the former congressman who lost his seat because his father spent too much money in securing his election. Catlin after being unseated, ran for the office again at the last election, but was defeated by Mr. Igoe. The new congressman is of Irish descent, is thirty-four years old and resigned as a mem
ber of the Missouri house of delegates to accept his new office. FROM 25TH ILLINOIS DISTRICT. Robert Potter Hill, the new congressman from Marion, 111., is a Democrat and is thirty-nine years old. He it- a lawyer by profession but has taught school and was graduated from college as a bachelor of science. ito has held many public offices in his native city and since 1909 has been a member of the Illinois general assembly. He succeeded N. R. Thistlewood. a Republican.
MASONIC CALENDAR .
Wednesday. August 20. Wekfc Lodn No. 24. F. A. M. Statd meeting Webb lodge. No. 24. Free and Ao
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meeting Wednesday evening, at walcl all members are urgently requested to be presenL
Heart to Heart Talks
BURY IT! On the walls of the great Bedford reformatory in New York state, which is doing wonderful work In reclaiming women once believed to be lost, hangs the saying: "Forgetting the things which art behind and reaching forth to those things which are before." It is the motto of the institution, and it embodies the spirit which governs there. It were well for America and the world if tbe motto were lived up to in all reformatory and penal institutions. We might see at a measurable distance the coming of the day when prisons shall be all "penitentiaries," places for penitence rather than punishment But others besides tbo.se in reformatories and penitentiaries need the lesson embodied In the motto. It is another way of saying, "Let the dead past bury its dead." Tbe past is gone; the future is not yet come; we live now. There is much virtue In "now." Far back along tbe road of life which we have traveled to the milestone at which we now find ourselves are the landmarks of opportunities missed, of misdeeds done. How fast, think you, can you travel along the road which is yet to come if you stop all the time to look back at them, perhaps turn in your career to revisit them? Let them stay there. If you must go back to them let it be only for instruction and warning. Hurry to return. Do not bring from them souvenirs to weigh you down in your future journeying. Above all. do not seek to retrace the steps of a fellow traveler on life's road for the purpose of reproaching him with past falterings. If he is plodding along manfully do not seek to bold him back by casting before him the shadows of bis past. As we journey through life we face the sun of hope. It casts tbe shadows behind us, not in front of us. Turn and tbe shadows lie before you. Keep on going and the shadows stretch behind. Sometimes we glance backward, and then they seem to lie thick and fast and gloomy and threatening on the road. When we have mounted tbe hill and cast our last, long look behind on the highway we have traveled we shall see that nowhere were they as menacing as they seemed. And, while you forget the things which are behind, do not fall to reach forth for the things which are before!
GIVE REV. PICKETT A PURSE OF $47.00 LYNN, Ind., Aug. 19. The two classes of older persons of the Friends church decided to surprise their pastor, the Rev. Henry Pickett, one evening last week. Thirty-six spen a pleasant evening and enjoyed ice cream and cake, after which they presented Rev. Pickett with $47.
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At the Murray. Week of Aug. 18 "In Wyoming.'
YESTERDAY IN THE SENATE AND HOUSE!
SENATE. Met at 11 a. m. Senator Tillman in speech attacked woman's suffrage. Consideration of tariff bill resumed. Senator Bristow openings debate on sugar and offering substitute schedule. Senator Dillingham introduced amendment to tariff to divert income tax revenue to construction of good roads. Lobby committee adjourned until Friday without hearing any witness. Finance committee heard concluding arguments of California wine producers. Adjourned at 6:18 p. m. to 11 a. m. today.
At the Murray. "In Wyoming" is a beautiful western drama being presented at the Murray theatre this week by the Francis Sayles Players. The story depicts the fascinating life, on the Big Six ranch, filled with love, tragedy and heroism. The thrilling rescue of the stolen girl in the fourth act among the foothills of Big Horn Range of Mountains is vividly dramatic. The scenery is truly western and every detail of western life is represented. The costumes are very fitting.
The Palace. Today the Palace is showing another of those exciting broncho Indian dramas, "The Quakeress," a two-part film of the kind that everybody comes to see. It is a thrilling drama of early puritan days and shows the origin of the Blue Laws and the persecution of a young Quaker girl. With it is
i shown a delightful southern story.
"Kentucky Foes" produced by the Reliance company Wednesday, another Keystone comedy and two other good films. Mutual Observers given free to ladies.
HOUSE. Not in session, meets today. Lobby committee resumed with I. H. McMichael under examination. Democrats resumed caucus .on ad-
i ministration currency bill.
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TODAYTWO BIG FEATURES -THE QUAKERESS,1 Two-Reel Broncho Indian Drama. -KENTUCKY FOES." A Thrilling Drama by Reliance Company. Thursday: -The FLAME IN THE ASHES"
MURRETTE TODAY! Circus Day in Richmond
If you were on 2tn street during the parade of the ITac enbeck-Wallace Circus, yon are in this picture.
Murray ALL THI8 WEEK Francis Sayles' Players In a Romance of the Western Plains IN WYOMING A Western Play Without a Shot PRICES Matinees Tues. Thurs. Sat. 10 and 20c Nights at 8:15 10, 20, and 33c Next Week "A Bachelor's Romance."